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"Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm."

Addison, Joseph on editing and editors
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"The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible."

Blishen, Edward on editing and editors    Share

"Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole -- so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page."

Cather, Willa on editing and editors    Share

"I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery."

Chopin, Kate on editing and editors    Share

"When in doubt, delete it."

Cosby, Philip on editing and editors    Share

"Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir."

Dickinson, Emily on editing and editors    Share

"An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better."

Eliot, T. S. on editing and editors    Share

"I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers."

Eliot, T. S. on editing and editors
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"In art economy is always beauty."

James, Henry on editing and editors    Share

"Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."

Johnson, Samuel on editing and editors    Share

"If they have a popular thought they have to go into a darkened room and lie down until it passes."

Mackenzie, Kelvin on editing and editors    Share

"What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with."

Mille, Cecil B. De on editing and editors    Share

"A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself."

Moore, Marianne on editing and editors
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"Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH."

Noonan, Peggy on editing and editors    Share

"Editing is the same as quarreling with writers -- same thing exactly."

Ross, Harold Wallace on editing and editors    Share

"The waste basket is a writer's best friend."

Singer, Isaac Bashevis on editing and editors
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"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

Hubbard, Elbert on editing and editors    Share

"There is but one art, to omit."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on editing and editors    Share

"Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?"

Thoreau, Henry David on editing and editors    Share

"Words and sentences are subject to revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision."

Wendell, Barrett on editing and editors    Share

"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."

Wiesel, Elie on editing and editors
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